Dream poster?

Don’t Panic – distributors of flyers and posters and other promotional ephemera – are running a poster competition with Warner Brothers to help promote the release of Michel Gondry’s new film The Science of Sleep. The above poster, by Stephen Chan, and those shown below, are just a few of the entries so far, all of which can be viewed on the Don’t Panic website and voted for by the great unwashed. The top twenty designs will be exhibited at The Curzon Cinema in London’s Soho and all entrants will have the chance to watch the film at an exclusive pre-release viewing. 80,000 copies of the winning poster design will be printed and distributed in Don’t Panic packs across the country. There’s still time to enter…

Don’t Panic – distributors of flyers and posters and other promotional ephemera – are running a poster competition with Warner Brothers to help promote the release of Michel Gondry‘s new film The Science of Sleep. The above poster, by Stephen Chan, and those shown below, are just a few of the entries so far, all of which can be viewed on the Don’t Panic website and voted for by the great unwashed. The top twenty designs will be exhibited at The Curzon Cinema in London’s Soho and all entrants will have the chance to watch the film at an exclusive pre-release viewing. 80,000 copies of the winning poster design will be printed and distributed in Don’t Panic packs across the country. There’s still time to enter…

Photographic entry by Martin Harrison

Entry by madeforyou

hellovon’s entry

Entry from Wan Rikc

Vee Rilee’s entry

Poster by loveisick

Poster by Sally Garblet

Raj and Joe’s entry

Poster by lux4trip

For full details of how to enter (hurry, there are only three days left!) – and to view / vote for all the entries so far – visit Don’t Panic’s website.

More from CR

Contemporary art in London is full of childish glee these days. If Carsten Höller’s slides (at the Tate Modern until April 15) sound too scary, how about a game of “Squeak Piggie Squeak” with the kids at Tino Sehgal’s latest interactive performance work, down at the ICA?

Illustrator Ian Stevenson recently showed this video at the 2nd Pictoplasma conference… As well as showcasing various pieces of his work, it also shows him out and about drawing on things and adding his distinctive illustrative humour to various inanimate objects, turning them, in the process, into works of art. We also love the accompanying music, created by Stevenson himself.

“I should not have studied graphic design, I shouldn’t even be a graphic designer but I learned the language. Then I spent the next ten years learning how to lie.”
Just before Christmas, Peter Saville gave a talk at the Architectural Association in London.
Here are a few highlights:

“Mother are guest editing the February issue of Creative Review and are offering one page for anyone to ‘express themselves’. Highest bidder wins a page of this creative magazine to express their creativity in any way they want. You give us some of your cash, we’ll give you one of our pages. Your page will be seen by 100,000 people. Please submit your artwork by Thursday 21 December 2006. No company logos, no adverts, no Danish cartoons.”
This was the copy that went up on eBay on 7 December 2006. This is what happened next.